Friedrich VII Magnus of Zähringen (23 September 1647 – 25 June 1709) was the
Margrave
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of
Baden-Durlach
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from 1677 until his death.
Born at
Ueckermünde
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Ueckermünde has a long and varied history, going back to its foundi ...
Countess Palatine
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Non-Hereditary, 1085–1156
House of Hohenstaufen, 1156–1195
House of Welf, 1195–1214
House of Wit ...
Margrave
Margrave was originally the medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defence of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom. That position became hereditary in certain feudal families in the Emp ...
in 1677. He got involved in the
Nine Years' War
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and after the
Treaty of Ryswick
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, although it was only a formal title and he never had any real power over the Swiss city.
He again took part in the
War of the Spanish Succession
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, as one of the leaders of the Imperial Army; some of the battles being fought in his territories.
He died at Durlach in 1709 and was succeeded in the Margraviate by his son,
Husum
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. They had the following children:
* Frederick Magnus (13 January 1672 – 24 February 1672)
* Frederica Augusta (21 June 1673 – 24 July 1674)
* Christina Sophia (17 December 1674 – 22 January 1676)
* Klaudia Magdalene Elisabeth (15 November 1675 – 18 April 1676)
* Catherine (10 October 1677 – 11 August 1746), in 1701 she married Count Johann Friedrich von Leiningen-Hartenburg. Her son Frederick magnus was the father of
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm, 1st Prince of Leiningen
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Life
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm was the eldest ...
.
*
Charles III William, Margrave of Baden-Durlach
Charles III William (german: Karl III. Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach; Durlach, Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg
Magdalena Wilhelmine of Württemberg (7 November 1677, Stuttgart – 30 October 1742, Karlsburg Castle, Durlach) was a margravine of History of Baden, Germany#18th century, Baden. She had a place in the regency during the minority of her gran ...
* Johanna Elisabeth (3 October 1680 – 2 July 1757), in 1697 she married
Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg
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Eberhard Louis was born in Stuttgart the third child of Duke William Louis and his wife, Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Da ...
Christopher
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(9 October 1684 – 2 May 1723), he married Marie Christine Felizitas zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg-Heidesheim
* Charlotte Sophia (1 March 1686 – 5 October 1689)
* Marie Anna (9 July 1688 – 8 March 1689)